Message from @Scale_e
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Migrants need to stop thinking of themselves as *X*-Australians, and start thinking of themselves as Australians first.
exactly
they should remember their convict heritage
I mean even consider the term ABC - australian born chinese
Imaigne "Chinese born Australian"
preposterous
ok
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they're trying to have it both ways, that their race and ethnicity are immutable and forever tied to the nation of China
sounds pretty gay
but us whites are just like, whatever man
p sure straya got a lot of chinese migrants due to its relatively close position
no it's because of our incredibly loose immigration
If you told an Aussie in a pub that he’s a Englishman first, he’d fkn glass you.
doesn't really matter if it's a 12 hour flight of 24 hour flight
Australia isn't really that close to china
there aren't millions of chinese in pretty much any other nearby country
Ack choo leee
not in korea, not in russia, not in vietnam, not in india
but somehow, australia
granted thailand and malaysia have signifiant historical chinese populations
one of my best friends is chinese thai for instance
wtf
bit she's thai, she's just han by lineage
have you got the virus yet?
Thailand is actually a really good example of integration.
My wife is Thai.
no but i have 20kg of rice, 20 cans of baked beans, 40 cans of tuna, 6 months of dog food, and extra bbq gas
where u live?
australia
yeah, I'm fucked
what street?
We did the ancestry dna thing, turns out she’s half Thai, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 Khmer.
She doesn’t consider herself anything but Thai.
queen
i like baked beans
yeah I also have a friend that's chinese malaysian
do you hav protection?
their identity is slightly more chinese oriented but they almost invariably dislike china kind of like taiwan
lots of racial tension in malaysia